At the City Council meeting this Wednesday evening at 6:00 pm, the Council members will be voting on the City’s Strategic Plan for 2023. There are two versions that they are considering. One version includes 14 provisions including the following three: 1) Facilitate homeless shelter site, 2) Explore unhoused vehicle program, and 3) Support and […]
Damming the powerful waters of the Columbia River was a boon for cheap, clean electricity. But the fish that swam those waters are dying out. And the agency in charge isn’t stopping that. (Part 2 of 2) – Tony Schick (OPB) Go to article.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing for salmon as they’d always done. But instead of working to preserve wild salmon, the federal government has propped up a system of failing hatcheries. OPB’s Tony Schick tells us about his new investigative report, completed in collaboration with ProPublica. […]
We have a date for our hike up the beautiful Pipe Fork Creek. Thank you for your responses to our Survey Monkey questionnaire! Based upon those responses the hike will be this coming Sunday, June 20th. We will meet in the Safeway shopping center parking lot, near KeyBank. This is the Safeway near the intersection […]
Because of continued droughts and warming temperatures, our country is becoming more of a tinderbox every year. Wildfires are getting larger. More are occurring. The fire season starts earlier every year. Every year more lives and property are at risk. We need to do something about it now! Please contact your Congressional Representatives and Senators. […]
Lynda Spangler and Joe Stodola will be leading a hike up the beautiful Pipe Fork Creek. Lynda and Joe will be accompanied by Cheryl Bruner and/or Chaz Rogers of the Williams Community Forest Project who will function as our expert guide(s). Please join us on a breath taking adventure through old growth forest, resplendent with […]
“We’ve grown leaps and bounds in our ability to collect climate data, particularly in the last 30 years since we’ve had satellites,” says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute, a think tank in Oakland, California. “But at the end of the day, we need to know what is likely to happen in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 CONTACT: Allie Rosenbluth, 541-816-2240, allie@rogueclimate.org Andrew Hawley, Western Environmental Law Center, 206-487-7250, hawley@westernlaw.org Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Upholds Oregon’s Denial of Key Jordan Cove LNG Permit Potentially fatal blow for fracked gas export terminal and pipeline proposed in Oregon [WASHINGTON, D.C.] — Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission […]
Information on this pandemic is changing rapidly as our scientists and doctors learn more and more about this dangerous virus. For our own safety and the safety of all of us we need to stay informed. Here are links to some very important sources of information that impacts you and those you love: World Health […]
